mothernaturenetwork: Birds, dolphins and other aquatic mammals perform unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, which puts one half of their brains to sleep while the other half stays alert. They don’t always split their brains’ sleep time, but when they need to stay in motion or are on high alert for predators, they can downshift and go to sleep, one half of their brain at a time.7 interesting bits of environmental trivia

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Birds, dolphins and other aquatic mammals perform unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, which puts one half of their brains to sleep while the other half stays alert. They don’t always split their brains’ sleep time, but when they need to stay in motion or are on high alert for predators, they can downshift and go to sleep, one half of their brain at a time.
7 interesting bits of environmental trivia

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    I actually think I used to do this in Biochem.
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    This could be very useful
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